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BEER AS A BEVERAGE. 



AN ADDRESS 

OF 

: 

REV. G. W. HUGHEY, A.M., 

Pastor of Trinity M. £. Church, St. Louis, Mo. 

DELIVERED ON SABBATH EVENING, JUNE 8, 1879, * N REPLY 

TO THE ANNUAL ADDRESS OF H. RUETER, PRESIDENT 

OF THE 19th ANNUAL CONVENTION OF THE 

BEER-BREWERS' CONGRESS. 



NEW YORK: 
National Temperance Society and Publication Honse, 

58 READE STREET. 
18S0. 



BEER A DANGEROUS BEVERAGE. 



The meeting of the nineteenth annual Con- 
vention of the " United States Brewers' Associa- 
tion" in our city the past week, was an event in 
which all, without reference to their views on the 
question of temperance, must have been deeply 
interested. This Association, with a capital, as 
stated by our Mayor in his address of welcome, of 
$300,000,000 invested in its work, and paying an 
annual revenue of $10,000,000 to the Government, 
is a great power, socially, morally, and politically. 
The question is, Is it a power for good, or is it a 
power for evil? Such money-ppwer, into which- 
ever scale it is cast, must exert an incalculable in- 
fluence upon society. 

Our Mayor, from his high position as the Chief 
Magistrate of our city, in his address of welcome, 
threw the whole weight of his personal and official 
influence on the side of beer, declaring that it is 
" one of the cheapest and most wholesome bev- 
erages known to the use of man." He says also, 
" The breweries furnish a refreshing stimulant at a 
price so cheap, that it is within the reach of all 
classes, and this fact enables them to exercise a 
beneficial influence on popular health and habits" 
Such a declaration as this could be honestly made 
only on the ground of the profoundest ignorance 



4 Beer a Dangerous Beverage. 

on the part of the man who made it, both as to the 
physical effects of beer upon those who use it, and 
the social effects it has upon the community which 
patronize it. The public reception and welcome 
given to the Association, and its treatment by the 
press of the city, show that the sentiments ex- 
pressed by the Mayor in his address of welcome 
are the prevailing sentiments of the city, and that 
the Chief Magistrate but gave voice to the sen- 
timents of his constituents. However true this 
may be, it is certain that there is a very respectable 
minority of the constituents of our honorable 
Mayor who do not share his sentiments, and this 
minority constitutes a very large per cent, of the 
intelligence and moral worth of the city., and it 
represents no inconsiderable portion of its material 
wealth. 

The feature of the discussion of 

THE BEER QUESTION 

by the members of the Convention which struck 
me most forcibly was the fact that the Mayor, the 
President of the Association, and all the speakers, 
as far as I have noticed, predicated their defense 
of the manufacture and sale of beer upon the 
ground or grounds of its beneficial effects, physi- 
cally, morally, and socially. The whole object of 
these advocates of Gambrinus seemed to be to prove 
that he is indeed a hero, working not for paltry 
gold or worldly honor, but for the physical, moral, 
and social elevation of the human race — that this 
vast capital of $300,000,000 is invested in a grand 



Beer a Dangerous Beverage. 5 

missionary enterprise, and those who are engaged 
in the manufacture and sale of lager beer are the 
most perfect specimens of disinterested benevolence 
the world has ever seen, working only for the im- 
provement and elevation of the race ; while those 
who, without the hope of gain or reward, are 
laboring to save mankind from the terrible curse 
of intemperance by- the only sure method — that of 
total abstinence — are a set of craven hypocrites, 
who are advocating their fanatical views only for 
" filthy lucre/' or for the gratification of the satanic 
desire to injure mankind. Now, ladies and gentle- 
men, from what we know of human nature and its 
temptations to hypocrisy, which do you think is 
most likely to be hypocritical, those who are mak- 
ing millions out of their traffic, and who are there- 
fore most intensely interested in finding a justifica- 
tion for it, or those who are making nothing, but 
who are laying out thousands of money, and the 
best labor of their lives, and suffering all the in- 
dignities that can be heaped upon them by this 
gigantic money-power, and who are laboring only 
to save men from the power of this terrible de- 
stroyer, that spares neither age nor sex ? 

But such as is this exhibition of shameless 
hypocrisy, which would attempt to justify the 
manufacture and sale of lager beer on the ground 
that it is beneficial, physically, morally, and so- 
cially, to its consumers, it is a most hopeful sign, 
as it recognizes the fact that even the men who are 
engaged in the very work of destroying their fel- 
lows, are compelled to seek a justification of their 



6 Beer a Dangerous Beverage, 

nefarious business on moral and humanitarian 
grounds. This is an indication of a healthy state 
of public sentiment, which gives hope in this con- 
test against this gigantic power for evil. 

Let us examine the points of defense set up by 
the President of the Association in his address : 

I. He claims that lager beer is health-giving — 
that it is a physical blessing to those who use it. 
He says: u Taken altogether, beer, as a beverage, 
can not be excelled, as it possesses a number of 
qualities which, jointly, have a most salutary effect 
upon the human organism/' 

Now, we ask, What are the qualities possessed 
by beer, which thus act beneficially upon the sys- 
tem ? And how do they act ? 

AN ANALYSIS 

of five different samples of lager beer, manufac- 
tured by different brewers, by Professor Chandler. 
of the School of Mines, of Columbia College, re- 
cently revealed the fact that these samples con- 
tained from 91.59 to 87.16 parts of water, from 
4.99 to 7.25 parts of alcohol, and from 3 to 5.40 
parts of extractive matter of malt and hops. The 
average was: water, 89.82; alcohol, 5.86; extractive 
matter of malt and hops, 4.32. Here we have 
lager beer composed of water, nearly ninety per 
cent. ; of alcohol, nearly six per cent. ; and of ex- 
tractive matter of malt and hops, not quite four 
and one-third per cent. , 

Now, I ask, in which of these component parts 
v<t lager beer do we find the "qualities which* 



Beer a Dangerous Beverage. 7 

jointly, have most salutary effect upon the human 
organism ? " I do not think the advocates of lager 
will tell us that these " qualities," so " beneficial " 
to " the human organism," are to be found in the 
ninety per cent, of water which the beer contains, 
for they do not seem to be very partial to water; 
they want to get along with as little of it as possi- 
ble ! Yet the only beneficial properties beer con- 
tains are in the ninety per cent, of water the beer- 
drinker is compelled to drink, much against his 
will, in order that he may get his six per cent, 
of alcohol and his four per cent, of malt and hop 
extract ! 

The alcohol contains nothing that can build up 
the system or benefit it. That there is no nutritive 
principle in alcohol is now a demonstrated fact of 
science, and our advocates of lager beer admit 
that the less they have of alcohol in their beer the 
healthier it is. Now, you see, they are compelled 
to find all the beneficial principles in lager beer in 
the four per cent, of malt and hop extracts it con- 
tains. Of this four per cent, of extractive matter 
two-thirds of it is an indigestible gum, which does 
not undergo any change in passing through the 
body, and the other one and a third per cent, is 
composed of sugar, vinegar, cripuline, the bitter 
principle of hops, and carbonic acid gas. Now, 
here we have in lager beer, by the most perfect 
system of scientific analysis, made by a most com- 
petent chemist, and made at the request of Dr. 
Elisha Harris, of the Board of Health of New 
York City, for the purpose of ascertaining the in- 



8 Beer a Dangerous Beverage. 

toxicating properties and hygienic qualities of 
lager beer ; ninety per cent, of water, six per cent, 
of alcohol, two and two-thirds per cent, of indi- 
gestible gum, and one and one-third per cent, of 
other ingredients, among which, the very small 
amount of sugar is the only valuable ingredient. 
I suppose the testimony of Baron Liebig, the great 
German chemist, will have weight with our beer- 
drinking friends, as he was no temperance fanatic, 
but simply a scientific inquirer, and the first 
chemist of Continental Europe of this age. I hold 
in my hand his great work on chemistry, and read 
from his u Familiar Letter on Chemistry/' Letter 
vi. : " Beer, wine, spirits, etc., furnish no element 
capable of entering into the composition of blood, 
muscular fiber, or any part which is the seat of the 
vital principle. " This is a strong, concise, and 
clear statement. Now, either the greatest German 
chemist of this or any other century is mistaken, 
or the President of the Brewers' Association is 
mistaken in regard to the beneficial effects of 
lager beer. This is important testimony, and test- 
imony, too, that we ought to pay particular atten- 
tion to. The idea has prevailed, and still does pre- 
vail, that there is nutrition in lager beer— that it is 
food. Now, 

DR. BARON VON LIEBIG, 

the greatest chemist of the age, declares that this 
is a mistake, and that there is nothing in u beer, 
wine, spirits," etc., which can enter into " the com- 
position of blood, muscular fiber, or any part which 



Beer a Dangerous Beverage. 9 

is the seat of the vital principle." The idea that it 
builds up the system is a false idea, at war with 
every fact of science. The idea that beer is a 
food, that it is nutritious, must be abandoned. 
Chemical analysis has demonstrated its utter false- 
hood, by revealing the fact that there is no nutri- 
tive principle in it at all. 

But the question is asked, " Is not lager beer 
good for sick people, or those who have weak di- 
gestive powers ? Does it not stimulate the stomach 
and promote digestion?" I will let the great Dr. 
Liebig answer this question also. I read from his 
Animal Chemistry, p. 39 : " In the action of the 
gastric juice on the food, no other element takes a 
share, except the oxygen of the atmosphere and the 
elements of water." If lager beer, then, promotes 
digestion, it is the ninety per cent, of water in it that 
does the work, and not the six per cent, of alcohol, 
nor the two and two-thirds per cent, of gum, nor 
the one and one-third per cent, of other ingredi- 
ents; and I would much prefer pure water without 
the poisonous ingredients of lager mixed with it. 
Again, says Baron Liebig, on page 40: "All sub- 
stances which can arrest the phenomena of fer- 
mentation and putrefaction in liquids, also arrests 
digestion when taken into the stomach." Now, 
we know that there is nothing that will do this 
equal to alcohol, therefore the alcohol in lager, 
when taken into the stomach, must of necessity 
interfere with the process of digestion. Lager 
beer, according to its strength, contains from five 
to eight per cent, of alcohol. Ale contains the 



io Beer a Dangerous Beverage. 

same. Wine contains, according to its strength, 
from ten to twenty per cent, of alcohol, while whisky 
contains from thirty to sixty per cent. Now, act- 
ual experiment has demonstrated that finely- 
minced beef put in gastric juice mixed with water, 
will be perfectly digested in ten hours, while the 
same mixed with gastric juice and alcohol in ten 
hours is unchanged, and the pepsin, which is the 
digestive ferment of the gastric juice, is precipi- 
tated, and digestion is impossible. The same put 
in gastric juice and wine, at the end of six hours is 
partly loosened, but at the end of ten hours is un- 
digested, and the pepsin is precipitated and diges- 
tion impossible. We see from these facts, demon- 
strated by actual experiments, that the amount of 
alcohol in lager beer is sufficient to materially in- 
terfere with the process of digestion, and this very 
interference calls for a larger amount of beer, and 
thus the difficulty increases, without the unfortu- 
nate victim knowing what is really the cause of his 
trouble. 

But, perhaps the objector may say : " Beer must 
be healthy, for men who use it get fat." It is true, 
beer makes men fat, but it does it not by any 
healthy process, but the 

ALCOHOL 

it contains enters the blood and prevents the co- 
agulation of the fibrine of the blood, and that 
which ought to make muscle, bone, and sinew, is 
deposited in the form of fat, which is only a draft 
on the vitality of the drinker, until he becomes so 



Beer a .Dangerous Beverage. n 

fat "his ej-es" not only " stand out with fatness," 
but he dies of fatness. Dr. Wm. B. Carpenter, 
one of the greatest living physiologists, in his treat- 
ise on " Alcohol, Its Use and Abuse in Sickness 
and Health," brings out these facts fully. 

But, says the objector: "There is not enough 
alcohol in lager beer to hurt the drinker." I have 
shown that, by actual analysis, lager beer contains 
from five to eight per cent, of alcohol. Now, those 
who drink freely will get from one to three glasses 
of pure alcohol a day ; and one glass of pure alco- 
hol a day is enough to do terrible mischief to the 
physical and mental man. Let no beer-drinker be 1 
deceived. Under the most favorable circumstances, 
for every twenty glasses of lager he takes, he gets 
one glass of pure alcohol, while those who use the 
stronger beer get one glass of pure alcohol for 
every thirteen glasses of beer!" But President 
Rueter takes the ground that beer is a temperance 
drink. He says: " It will be found that every 
brewery and every beer saloon helps to loosen the 
grasp which alcohol has on a country where dis- 
tilled liquors are habitually drank, and that the 
people will be weaned from strong drink in pro- 
portion as the use of beer extends. Good, whole- 
some beer, at moderate cost, is the best panacea 
yet discovered for intemperance as a national 
vice." 

One of the mottoes adorning the hall where the 
Association met read thus: "Lager beer, the bev- 
erage of our country — a true apostle of temper- 
ance!!" Now, we ask, is this true? Common 



12 Beer a Dangerous Beverage. 

sense, common observation, and the facts of his- 
tory unite in their testimony, proving that the 
very reverse is true. Common sense, confirmed 
by universal observation, tells us that the use of 
milder stimulants always leads to the use of 
stronger ones. In ordinary health no one needs 
stimulants of any kind, and their use creates a dis- 
eased condition of the system, which demands a 
larger amount, or a stronger kind of stimulant. 
This is a fact of universal experience and observa- 
tion. No one knows this fact better than those en- 
gaged in the beer traffic. The young man who 
begins with one glass of beer a day, will soon want 
two, and then three, and then four, and then five, 
until he can not get beer enough to stimulate him, 
and then he must have something stronger. The 
same is true in regard to the use of wine. The 
milder kinds lead to the use of the stronger, and 
those to the use of brandy and whisky ; and this 
has ever been the case, and must ever be the case. 
Either the quantity must be increased, or the qual- 
ity must be made stronger. This is a law, a de- 
mand of the 

USE OF STIMULANTS, 

and that which makes the use of alcoholic stimu- 
lants, even of the mildest form, so terribly danger- 
ous. Once begun, the demand is ever increasing, 
both in strength and quantity. This fact is so uni- 
versal and so palpable, that I w r onder that the ad- 
vocates of the substitution of wine and beer for the 
stronger forms of alcoholic stimulants do not feel 



Beer a Da.ngerous Beverage. 13 

their cheeks blush with the tinge of conscious 
hypocrisy every time they utter such sophistry. 
The whole history of the use of alcoholic stimu- 
lants, from the day that wine was first manufac- 
tured down to this very evening, establishes the 
same fact. Before the process of distillation was 
invented, or discovered, the nations who manufac- 
tured wine became involved fearfully in the vice 
and crime of drunkenness, and the constant study 
of the wine-drinkers was to find out how to make 
their wines more stimulating. This they did, as 
our modern liquor manufacturers and dealers do, 
by drugging it to increase its intoxicating power. 
From the days of the Jew T ish kings down to the 
present time, in every wine-producing country on 
the face of the earth, this has been the case, and 
it is so not by accident, but by a law inexor- 
able, which makes an ever-increasing demand for 
stronger stimulants to take the place of weaker 
ones, that have lost their power to satisfy the crav- 
ing demand of the depraved appetite. Take Cali- 
fornia as an illustration. The increase of her con- 
sumption of stronger stimulants keeps pace with 
her manufacture and consumption of her native 
wines. So it is all over the United States. The 
increase of the consumption of lager beer leads di- 
rectly, and by an inexorable law of necessity, to an 
increased consumption of distilled liquors. Take 
the statistics of the years 1871 and 1872 as an illus- 
tration of this fact. I take these two years because 
I have not the statistics of other years at hand. 
In 1871 there were consumed in the United States 



14 Beer a Dangerous Beverage. 

of distilled spirits 75,582,286 gallons, and of fer- 
mented liquors 213,725,160 gallons. In the year 
1872 there were consumed 83,212,500 gallons of 
distilled liquors, and 240,222,090 gallons of brewed 
or fermented liquors. Here we have an increase 
in one year of 26,496,930 gallons of fermented or 
brewed liquors, and an increase of 7,630,214 gallons 
of distilled liquors. This is an increase of a little 
over nine per cent, in the consumption of brewed 
or fermented liquors, and a little over eleven per 
cent, in the consumption of distilled liquors. This 
is an increase of two per cent, in the consumption 
of distilled liquors over that of brewed or fer- 
mented liquors. This is the way " lager beer" 
brewers " are apostles of temperance ! " This is 
the way it cures the vice of national intemper- 
ance ! § Do we need any further demonstration on 
this point? Here, we see, that every nine per 
cent, increase we have in the consumption of lager 
beer gives us eleven per cent, increase in the con- 
sumption of whisky. 

How long would it take to cure the vice of na- 
tional intemperance by this method? Will Presi- 
dent Rueter or Mayor Overstolz tell us? It is not 
in the interest of temperance and sobriety that the 
Brewers' Association are working; but in the in- 
terest of 

DISSIPATION AND DRUNKENNESS. 

Their business increases as the drinking habits of 
the people increase, and the profits on their $300,- 
000,000 depend upon the increase of intemperance. 



Beer a Dangerous Beverage. 15 

Under such circumstances, for the representatives 
of the Brewers' Association to assume the vole of 
temperance reformers, is an exhibition of brazen 
hypocrisy, sufficient to make Satan hide his face in 
shame. 

But President Rueter remarks again: u As the 
use of alcoholic stimulants, as a social custom, is, 
however, liable to lead to excess, and as habitual 
excess in their use does great mischief to society, 
the sale and consumption should be so controlled 
and directed as to lessen the danger of abuse as 
much as possible. This is what legislation should 
try to do, and all that it can hope to accomplish. 
To an unprejudiced mind, the substitution of a 
mild beverage for a strong one in public favor 
must appear as a simple and natural way to reach 
the object." 

This is a remarkable paragraph, and we wish to 
call particular attention to it. 1. If the Brewers' 
Association could substitute a mild beverage for a 
strong one, so far they would doubtless accomplish 
a good work. But the fact, as we have just seen, 
is — they only succeed in " substituting a strong 
beverage for a mild one." Do we see those who 
have become addicted to whisky substitute beer in 
its place ? Now, if the Brewers' Association could 
do this, and then only permit the drinking classes, 
by such restraints as Mr. Rueter admits we have a 
right to adopt to protect society, to drink what 
would be healthy for them and good for the com- 
munity, they should certainly have our co-opera- 
tion and help. But instead of this, they take the 



1 6 Beer a Dangerous Beverage. 

sober young men of the community and initiate 
them into the drinking habit, and lead them on to 
stronger drinks. It is just here that the greatest 
enormity of the beer traffic appears. It takes the 
uninitiated and starts them on the way to ruin, 
and then, when their habit of beer-drinking is con- 
firmed, they substitute the stronger for the weaker 
beveVage. 

2. But Mr. Rueter here admits that "the use of 
alcoholic stimulants is liable to lead to excess/' 
and, of course, beer is included in alcoholic stimu- 
lants ; and that "the habitual excess in their use 
does great mischief to individuals and to society, " 
and that, therefore, " the* sale and consumption 
should be so controlled and directed as to lessen 
the danger of abuse as much as possible. " Now, 
we have here a full admission of the legal right to 
control the sale of alcoholic stimulants, and as beer 
is an alcoholic stimulant, we have the right to con- 
trol it, " so as to lessen the danger to society as 
much as possible/' If Mr. Rueter and the Asso- 
ciation will stick to this position, we will be able 
to harmonize upon it without difficulty. The right 
to control in the interest of society carries along 
with it the 

RIGHT TO PROHIBIT, 

if the well-being of society demands it. Now, let 
the advocates of beer stand upon this platform, 
and we will soon convince them that the only way 
to protect society from the evils arising from the 
excessive use of alcoholic stimulants, is to prohibit 



Beer a Dangerous Beverage. IJ 

the traffic altogether. Now, we ask, will the Asso- 
ciation of Brewers unite with the friends of tem- 
perance in favor of a law prohibiting the manufac- 
ture, sale, and use as a beverage of ail distilled 
liquors? If they are in earnest, and honest in their 
utterances in their last annual Convention, they 
most certainly will, for they, in the fullest and most 
unequivocal manner, committed themselves to the 
theory of legal prohibition, as applied to distilled 
liquors ; but this is the last thing they contemplated 
doing. They are as fierce in their denunciations 
of prohibition as they are free in their praises of 
the beverage of their own manufacture. Their 
feeble and foolish assault on the Maine Law shows 
their feeling on this question. While admitting 
that the Maine Law has completely broken up the 
liquor trade in Maine, Mr. Rueter attempted to 
prove, by Governor Garcelon, a strong and pro- 
nounced advocate of the repeal of the law, and 
who was not elected by the people of Maine at all, 
and who does not represent their sentiment, that 
greater evils have followed in the increase of the 
use of opium, tobacco, chloroform, etc., etc., than 
the use of whisky. Now, neither Governor Gar- 
celon nor Mr. Rueter expected men of sense to 
accept such twaddle as argument. Every sensible 
person knows that with the reduction of the use 
of alcoholic stimulants you reduce the use of all 
other kinds of stimulants; and this silly statement 
of Governor Garcelon can only bring the cause of 
alcoholic stimulants into deeper contempt in all 
right-thinking minds. 



1 8 Beer a Dangerous Beverage. 

Mr. Rueter claims that the manufacture and sale 
of lager beer is a legitimate industry, that ought 
to receive the special protection of the Govern- 
ment, as it furnishes employment for thousands of 
men, and pays $10,000,000 of revenue to the Gov- 
ernment. Now, there is but one way any business 
or trade can justify itself, and that is by giving to 
the consumer an equivalent for his money. The 
amount of capital invested, the number of men 
employed, and the amount of revenue paid ty the 
Government can not justify any business or trade. 
The only law that can justify any business or trade 
is the law of equivalent. A business that does not 
give to the consumer an equivalent for his money 
is not a legitimate business. Tried by this rule, 
the beer business is not a legitimate business, for it 
gives no equivalent to its consumer for his money. 
In this respect it is worse than robbery, for it not 
only takes its victim's money without giving any 
equivalent in return, but it fixes in him an appetite 
that thirsts and burns for gratification until it con- 
sumes him, destroys his body, ruins his reputation, 
beggars his family, destroys his mind, and ruins his 
soul. All this it does as its legitimate and neces- 
sary work. Now, a business that produces such 
results can not be justified upon any legitimate 
principles of business. The more a man patronizes 
it the worse off he is in pocket, health, and charac- 
ter. It takes his very life-blood, and gives nothing 
in return but broken health, poverty, and misery; 
yet it puts on a brazen face, and demands special 
protection at the hands of the law, while it is en- 



Beer a Dangerous Beverage. 19 

gaged in the nefarious business of ruining its vic- 
tims, and spreading wretchedness and beggary 
among their families. But we have shown, and 
that conclusively, that the use of beer is but the 
initiating step in the cause of continued intemper- 
ance; that it takes the young man from his home 
and from the heart of his mother, and from the 
pure associations of his sisters, and introduces him 
into the society of the beer-drinker, and makes him 
the companion of the depraved and the vicious. 
Surrounded by these depraved associations, the 
alcoholic stimulants he imbibes in the shape of 
beer and other alcoholics, his moral sense becomes 
depraved, and his vilest passions become enraged 
and uncontrollable, and he is hurried along by the 
maddening effects of alcohol to destruction. Still 
the Brewers' Association, backed by a capital ot 
$300,000,000, and an incalculable political influence 
and power, demands the right to take your sons 
and mine from our hearth-stones and debauch 
them, and make criminals of them, and run the 
plow-share of destruction through our family cir- 
cles, and send our gray hairs to the grave in sor- 
row, that they may fatten and prosper upon our 
broken hearts and ruined households! Then they 
have the effrontery to flaunt their banners in our 
faces and proclaim lager beer as the great civilizer 
of mankind ! I do not wish to come in contact 
with the civilizing influence of lager, when it has 
been imbibed in sufficient quantities to produce its 
peculiar effervescing influence on the minds of 
those who are under its civilizing influence ! 



20 .Beer a Dangerous Beverage. 

Every lager beer saloon that is opened in any 
community, is detrimental to that community in 
every conceivable way. It makes no community, 
no individual, better; but it makes ever}' com- 
munity and every individual who patronizes it 
worse. It sinks the civilization into a lower scale, 
and turns those who imbibe it freely, for the time 
being, into savages, and prepares them for every 
lawless excess while under its maddening influence. 
Tried by every law of trade, and by every moral 
law, and every just social law, the beer traffic is 
proved guilty of being the enemy of the human 
race, as certainly and surely as is the whisky 
traffic, and no money-power nor political influence 
can uphold forever such a system of wrong, which 
makes war upon every interest dear to humanity. 
The time of the triumph of the right is hastening, 
and strong and gigantic as the beer-power is now, 
the day is coming when right shall triumph over 
might, and when the oppressed victims of the 
Deer-power shall go free,- and the song of liberty 
shall go up from redeemed humanity to Him who 
alone has the power to break every chain, and let 
the oppressed go free. May God hasten it in His 
time ! 

The oppressive spirit of the beer-power was fully 
manifested in the treatment given to Mr. Bemis, 
editor of the Prohibitionist. Such conduct is a dis- 
grace to the civilization of this age and country, 
and those who resort to such methods of carrying 
their measures will yet find that principles can not 
be crushed by offering indignities to those who 



Beer a Dangerous Beverage. 21 

advocate them, and that such violence must return 
upon the heads of those who practice it, and only 
hastens the overthrow of the cause which they 
represent. We can afford to stand by our prin- 
ciples, for, thank God, we have principles to stand 
by — principles as firm as the eternal pillars of 
truth, and which are destined to stand when em- 
pires founded in sin, and supported by the revenues 
of iniquity, shall perish. Let us, as a people, be 
wise enough to put iniquity away from our hearts, 
and build our social and political fabric upon the 
eternal rock of truth and justice, and then the bil- 
lows of destruction will dash in vain upon our 
foundation. But if we build in unrighteousness, 
it matters not how strong the superstructure may 
appear, nor what money-power there may be back 
of us, God will send the rain of His wrath upon 
it, and our house shall fall because it is founded on 
the sand, and built in unrighteousness. 



Science and Political Economy 

The following valuable bocks, by some of the foremost writers in th« 
world, have been published by the National Temperance Society, and 
which should have a wide circulation: 
Our Wasted Resources, or the Missing Link in the Temper 

anee Reform. 12mo, 201 pag;es, paper cover, 50 cents ; cloth, $1.25 

By Dr. Wm. Hargheaves, M.D. 

This book presents in a new and striking light the economic aspect of the temper- 
ance question. It includes a series of fourteen elaborate and carefully prepared tables, 
the result of many months of painstaking labor, which give from official sources an ex 
Mbit of our immense agricultural, manufacturing, and mining resources ; the yield ot 
our fisheries ; the extent, value, and receipts of our railways ; the growth of our ex- 
ports and imports during the last fifty years ; the number of persons employed and the 
wages paid iu connection with our varied industries, etc. The book also presents, in 
a more complete form than tr^ey have ever before been given to the public, well- 
authenticated statistics of the liquor traffic, showing the quantity and cost of intoxi- 
cating drinks; the number of persons employed m the manufacture and sale of 
iquors ; the expenditures for crime and pauperism caused by the drink-traffic, and 
ihe material benefit which would accrue, especially to the laboring classes, to the 
fcause of education and religion, and the ease with which our national debt could be 
paid, if the great drink-waste were stopped. 

Alcohol and The Slate. A Discussion of the Problem of Law a9 
Applied to the Liquor Traffic. 12nio. 406 pages, $1.50. By Robert 
C. Pitman, LL.D., Associate Justice of the Superior Court of Massa 
chusetts. 

This is one of the most valuable and important contributions to the literature of tho 
economic and legislative aspects of the alcoholic discussion, as a question of states- 
manship, ever given to the public of our own country or of Europe, it treats, with 
great conciseness and marked ability, of what the State loees in various ways through 
alcohol, and. in turn, of what is the duty and proper function of the State concerning 
alcohol. It is of a high order of literary merit, and is a book for statesmen, legislators, 
and ail intelligent, thoughtful temperance men and women everywnere. 

On Alcohol, 12mo, 190 pages. Paper covers, 50 cents ; cloth, $1.00. 

By Benjamin W. Bichardson, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., of London, with 

an introduction by Dr. Willakd Parker, of New York. 

This book contains the " Cantor Lectures " recently delivered before the Society of 

Arts. These justly celebrated lectures, six in number, embrace a historical sketch ol 

alcoholic distillation, and the results of an exhaustive scientific inquiry concerniu s 

the nature of alcohol and its effects upon the human body and mind. They have at 

traded much attention throughout Great Britain, both among physicians and general 

readers, and are the latest and best scientific expositions of alcohol and its effects extant. 

Bacchus Dethroned. 12mo, 248 pages. By Frederick Powell 
$1.00. 

This is a prise essay, and is one of the ablest and most convincing works ever issued. 
The question is presented in all its phases, physiological, social, political, moral, and 
religious. 

The Prohibitionists Text-Book. 12mo, 312 pages. Containing 
the most valuable Arguments, Statistics, Testimonies, and Appeals from 
twenty able writers, showing the Iniquity of the License System and the 
Right and Duty of Prohibition. 

Alcohol &s a Food and Medicine. 12mo, 137 pages. By Ezra 
M. Hunt, M.D. Paper, 25 cents ; cloth, 80 cents. 

This work discusses the subject of alcohoJ as a food and also as a medicine, and 
demonstrates that it has no value used as the former, and may be substituted in th« 
iatter. Every one should read it. 

The Medical Use of Alcohol. 12mo, 9(5 pa^es. Paper, 25 cents*, 
cloth, 60 cents. By James Edmunds, M.D., of London. Three Lectures 
upon the Medical and Dietetic use of Alcohol, together with the use oi 
Stimulants for Women and Nursing Mothers. 

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Talks on Temperance* 

BY 

Rev. Cano^ Fakrar, D.D., F.R.S. 
12mo, 158 pages; cloth, 60 cents; paper cover, 25 cents. 



The National Temperance Society has recently published 
the Ten Sermons and Talks by this eminent divine. They are 
filled with sound convincing arguments against the lawfulness, 
morality, and necessity of the Liquor Traffic, as well as stirring 
appeals to all Christian men and women, to take a firm, decided, 
outspoken stand in favor of Total Abstinence from all intoxica- 
ting liquors. 

He gives the trumpet no uncertain sound, when he proclaims 
war against Alchohol, but urges every motive, and brings to bear 
every incentive, to enlist recruits from every class. 

OVER 40,000 COPIES 

aave already been sold in England, and we trust that, with the 
very low price at which they are sold, they will secure a wide cir- 
culation in every community. The following is the Table of 

CONTENTS : 

1* Bet-ween the Living and the Dead* 

2. Reasons for Being an Abstainer. 

3. Total Abstinence for the Sake of Ourselves and others* 

4. The Vow of the Nazarite. 

5. The Vow of the Rechahites. 

6. The Serpent and the Tiger. 
T. Our Duty as a Nation. 

8* Abstinence from Evil. 
9. Address to Teachers. 
10. Experience of a Total Abstainer. 

It will be sent by mail on receipt of price. 

Address J. N. STEARNS, Publishing Agent, 

5S Meade Street, New York* 



Tlxo "\7V"i*3i© Question. 

•the National Temperance Society has published a variety of Books and Tracts upon the Wine 
3ue«stion, by some of the ablest writers in the world. The investigation clearly shows the exist- 
ence of two kinds of wine, the fermented and unfermented, and presents numerous and convin- 
cing authorities. 

Bijle "Wines, or the Laws of Fermentation and "Wines of the 

Ancients. 12mo, 139 pages. By Rev. Wm. Patton, D.D. Paper, 30c. ; cloth 60 
It presents the whole matter of Bible Temperance, and the wines of ancient times in 
a new, clear, and satisfactory manner, developing the laws of fermentation, and givL .g a /< 

arge number of references and statistics never before collected, showing conclusively the * 

existence of unfermented wine in the olden time. \ 

Bible Rule of Temperance. 18mo, 206 pages. By Rev. Geo. Duffield, D.D. gO 

dommnnion "Wine, or Bible Temperance. 133 pages. By Rev. Wm. M. 

Thayer. Paper, 20c. ; cloth 50 

An unanswerable argument against the use of intoxicating wine at Communion, and 
presenting the Bible argument for abstinence. 

Scripture Testimony against Intoxicating Wine. By Rev. V7m. M. 

Ritchie, of Scotland. 18mo, 213 pages 60 

An unanswerable refutation of the theory that the Scriptures favor the idea of the use 
of intoxicating wine as a beverage. It takes the different kinds of wines mentioned in the 
Scriptures, investigates their specific nature, and shows wherein they differ. 

xO'Spel Temperance. 12mo, 114 pp. By Rev. J. M. Van Buren. Paper, 25c; cloth 60 

This work is intended to supply the felt necessity for an authoritative law on the sub- 
ct of Temperance. It gives a clear explanation of that law, with its applications, and 
ae duties it imposes. 

The Church and Temperance. By John W. Hears, D.D . . 15 

The Moral Duty of Total Abstinence. By Rev. T. L. Cuyler, D.D 15 

The Wine and the "Word. By Rev. Herrick Johnson, D.D 15 

The Wines of the Bible. By Rev. C. H. Fowler, D.D 10 

Four -Page Tracts. $£.00 per Thousand. 



p. 



imothy a Teetotaler. 
Domestic Wine. 

The Wine-Cup and the Gallows. 
Questions with Bible Answers, 
ffhere did Timothy get his Wine ? 
Shall We Drink Wine ? 
Shall We use Wine and Beer ? 
A Word to Scriptural Wine Drinkers 
Wine and Expediency. 

JZight-Page Tracts. $8.00 per Thousand, 



Wine Drinking —the Beginning and 
the Ending. 

Timothy Titcomb's Testimony against 
Wine. 

Wine-Drinking in Prance. 
The Sabbath and Temperance. 
The Church and Temperance. 
The Miracle at Cana. 



Bible Wines* 

Does the Bible Favor Moderate Drink- 
ing? 



Does the Bible Sanction the us£ of 

Wine at the Lord's Supper ? 
Bible Opposed to Wine Drinking. 



NATIVE WINES. Twelve "Pages. $/2.00 per Thousand. 

. emperance Bible Commentary. By Dr. F. R. Lees and Rev. Dawson Burns. 

Octavo, 430 pages 2 . &0 

Giving at one view, version, criticism, and exposition, in regard to all passages of Holy 
?rit, bearing on wine and strong drink, or illustrating the principles of the Temperance 
Reformation. Any of the above sent by mail, on receipt of price. 

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